One of the more dynamic corners of the evangelical world right now can be found by searching for the hashtag, #deconstruction. Over the past few years a few relatively famous Christians have announced that they are deconstructing their faith or have left the faith altogether as a result of the process. A tour through the... Continue Reading →
Philosophy Matters: Machines and Humans
In hearings in the Supreme Court on January 7th, 2022, Justice Sonya Sotomayor asked counsel this question: โHow are human beings different from a machine?โ The context was the administrationโs vaccine mandate for businesses over 100 employees to be enforced through rules written by OSHA. OSHA has near impunity with regulating the safety and use... Continue Reading →
True Love. Or Not.
I just donโt think the love of God should be linked to known falsehoods. It has been popular over the last several years to support various political and social causes by telling Christians that supporting the cause is the same thing as loving your neighbor. This takes one of the two Great Commandments given by... Continue Reading →
Resistance to Tyranny
โResistance to Tyrants is Obedience to Godโ It is a provocative phrase, but if Benjamin Franklin had his way, it would have been on our national seal, complete with a scene from the book of Exodus. Thomas Jefferson liked the sentiment so much he used it as his personal seal. It isnโt surprising that a... Continue Reading →
Truth Drift
One of the most critical capacities an individual can possess right now is a finely tuned B.S. Radar. There are so many lies and half-lies floating through our culture, an individual needs to be proactive about telling the differences between what is true and what is false. Critical thinking is at a premium right now... Continue Reading →
Leadership and Stewarding the Wellbeing of Others
I have been reading through more of the โPolitical Sermons of the American Founding Eraโ and ran across a wonderful sermon by Charles Chauncy. An important paragraph appears early in the sermon after he laid the rational groundwork for Godโs ordination of the roles of leadership among humans. Chauncy believes leadership roles are both divinely... Continue Reading →
Reasons for Religious Exemption
With COVID-19 vaccine mandates looming, or in some cases, already here, the matter of exemptions to the mandates have come to the forefront. There are exemptions based on medical conditions or โmatters of conscienceโ, and there is the possibility in some cases of being able to claim a religious exemption to the mandates. The COVID-19... Continue Reading →
Affirming that Denying Evolution is White Supremacy
The old saying goes, โto a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.โ Alternatively, it can be said of Critical Race Theory and the broader Woke culture it has spawned, โTo a person who accepts CRT, everything looks like white supremacy.โ This term, in the hands of those who coined it and who... Continue Reading →
Protecting Liberty for All
Protecting the liberties of citizens necessarily entails protecting the liberties of people with little to no social influence or power. A civilization protects them so that the liberties of the least among us can be secured. If we become soft on or unequal in the protection of liberties, those who lose theirs first will be... Continue Reading →
Should CRT be Taught in Schools?
If so, I have one question: Will it be taught the same way Christianity is taught? As we prepare for the start of school in the fall of 2021, a new battle is raging between academics and teacher unions on one side, and parents and religious/political conservatives on the other. The battle ground is Critical... Continue Reading →